Timeline of the Holden Commodore in pictures

To celebrate, Drive has tracked some of the Aussie-built hero’s biggest milestones to-date.

Holden’s longest-standing and most successful name-plate has come a long way since the first iteration was introduced in 1978. Back then, the ground-breaking VB Commodore was fitted with a straight six-cylinder engine packing 64kW of power and returned a fuel reading of 16.0L/100km combined.

Since then, the Commodore has paralleled important milestones in driver safety, comfort and power – the most recent advances being encompassed into the new VF range released mid-year.

That could make the Commodore’s 35th bash something of an early swansong.

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Mid life crisis - the damn thing is on its death bed and if it were an animal we'd have the kindness and humanity to put it out of further misery.

Currently the commode is only being kept alive by an intravenous injection of publlc monies, and like most drug therapies, that can't continue for ever.

So it's proper place is in a hospice were it can get palliative care and be made comfortable until its inevitable demise.

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Ex-pat

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October 25, 2013, 2:28PM

I rather keep it going as long as possible, there is still substantial amount of new commodores i see on the roads enough to see they are still in demand. Its the management that will judge its demise, Just like with the pontiac G8, they will sell this car in the states just before killing it, just to troll their customers. This car has no future unless we nationalize Holden, just putting it on its death bed will let them run away with tax payers money, but its still not as ill as the Falcon was for them to do that. So they will 'succeed' it with an actual commode with wrong wheel drive, a car that not even the bogans would want, unless they are that fooled by an Holden badge that they think it's Australian.

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October 25, 2013, 6:47PM

Why all the hate for the Commodore? They are a nice looking car that is uique to this country .They drive well are comfortable, and if you do a lot of highway they can not be beat! Never had any problems with the ones I've had .I just dont get...

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Dan the man

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October 25, 2013, 4:20PM

I will be holding on to my VL Calais turbo for a few years yet...smoothest engine made thanks to Nissan.